Even if you've never created a merged cell in a business spreadsheet, you may receive a spreadsheet that has one. Excel allows you to combine multiple cells into a single cell by clicking a button.

Splitting the contents of a cell into more than one column manually in Microsoft Excel would take too much time and likely result in errors. Fortunately, the program offers many ways—from built-in ...

Copy all of the cells from the original column to the first new column. Select the character that divides the data. Depending on your data, this could be a space, a comma, a dash or another character.